Impacts of wet-dry cycles and a range of constant water contents on carbon mineralization in soils under three cropping treatments

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 485-493

  Guo, Xiaobin ^a,b   Drury, Craig F ^a   Yang, Xueming ^a   Daniel Reynolds, W ^a   Zhang, Renduo ^b  

^a HARROW RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MINERALIZATION; CLAY LOAM SOILS; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); CROPPING HISTORY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DRYING PROCESS; GLYCINE MAX; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PORE SPACE; RE-WETTING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DRYING; SOIL ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL WATER CONTENT; WET-DRY CYCLE; WETTING AND DRYING; WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.);

AMINO ACIDS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DRYING; MINERALOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; OILSEEDS; ROTATION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER CONTENT;

CARBON;

CROP ROTATION; MAIZE; MINERALIZATION; MONOCULTURE; ORGANIC CARBON; PORE SPACE; REWETTING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL WATER; SOYBEAN; TRANSFORMATION; WATER CONTENT; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE; WHEAT;

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84863297396     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2011.0315     Document Type: Article

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